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¶Regnum Iudeorum restituitur.

ARistobolus was the fyrst kynge and preest in the Iury / this man regned one yere alone / and toke to hym the Dyademe of the kyngdome. And he helde hym not contente with that y^• his fader gaf hym in his testament. But he put his moder in pryson & his brethern. And therfore he perysshed wretchydly with his brother Antigonus / the whiche was of his counseyll and helped hym. (Vide magistrū in histo••••••) ¶Anntigo¦nus brother vnto the kynge was slayne thrugh the enuyt••e of the quene. ¶Alex∣ander was bysshop after Aristobolus / & he stode .xxvij. yere. And he was all a sy∣raunt / all though he appered sobre in the begynnynge. But he made it knowen what he was in his stomacke / for he sle∣we his owne brother. And in .xij. yere he slewe .l. thousande of the olde sage fa∣ders of grete vertue / by cause they tolde hym his mysgydynge. Thenne whan he sholde deye / he lefte two sones behyn¦de hym. Hircanū and Aristobolū. But certaynly he sayd his wfy sholde regne / for she stode in the grace of the people. ¶Seruius Flaccus. Lucius. Fabi{us}. Plu∣bius this tyme were Senatours at Ro∣me. This tyme bataylles amonge them self beganne. Of the whiche the fyrste cause & the begynnynge was Giac••us a myghty man / well knowen with no∣ble Romayns / began to seke a cause a∣gaynst them. And by cause y^• he myght do no thynge alone to them / he me••ed the comyn people to theym sayenge / That all the londes & possessyons sh••l∣de de be denyded equaly / and also the m••∣neye ••ē. And for that cause there was an Insurreccyon / in the whiche Graccus was slayne / and many myscheues felle after (Vide Orosium) ¶In the tyme of these men / there was a childe borne at Rome / hauynge foure feet / foure ar∣mes / two faces / and foure eyen. ¶The hylle of Ethna spytted out flammynge fyre horryble / and destroyed the places nyghe about it. ¶And these men beryn¦ge rule. Cartago was cōmaunded to be restored. And it was fulfylled of the Ro∣mayns people. And there was myghty batayll in the cyte of Rome. ¶Fabius with a lytell hoste ouercame the kynge of Armenye. And there were drowned an bondred & four score thousande men in the water of Reine. ¶Ptholomeus Alexander was kynge in Egypte. In

his tyme was borne Lucerius a Poete / the whiche afterwarde was madde for loue of wȳmen & slewe hymself. ¶Ptho¦lomeus sone to Cleopatre regned after hym / vnder whome Salustius the noble wryter of hystoryes was borne. ¶Ptho∣lomeus Dyonisius was after this man And in his tyme Virgyll and Oracius were borne.